OpenAI CTO’s Twitter account hacked, shilling ‘rip-off’ airdrop, group warns

by Jeremy

Crypto Twitter has been flooded with warnings from customers, after the Twitter account of Mita Murati, the chief know-how officer of synthetic intelligence agency OpenAI, was seemingly hacked —  selling a “rip-off” cryptocurrency airdrop.

On June 2, Murati’s account tweeted what seems to be a phishing hyperlink promising an airdrop of a purported ERC-20 token OPENAI named after the agency that created ChatGPT. 

Murati has 126,200 followers on Twitter and has a verified account on the platform. The publish has been considered 79,600 instances and has been retweeted 83 instances on the time of writing. 

Murati’s tweet promotes the airdrop of an ERC-20 token and hyperlinks to what seems to be a phishing web site. Supply: Twitter

The tweet’s creator has additionally restricted who might reply to the tweet so others are unable to simply warn the hyperlink is a rip-off.

Some Twitter customers theorize that Murati was a sufferer of a SIM-swapping assault.

It is a creating story, and additional info will likely be added because it turns into accessible.